2400BC-1500BC Late Danish Neolithic: In the
Ertebolle Culture amber pendants were shaped as animals. This
includes the Dagger Period of Northern Europe.
(PacDis, Winter/’97,
p.8)(http://tinyurl.com/9usqn)

400-500 During this period the Jutes of Jutland,
at the northern tip of the Danish peninsula, migrated to Britain
as part of a Germanic invasion. The notion that they settled in
what is now Kent and the Isle of Wight, as is recorded by
Anglo-Saxon chronicler Bede the Venerable, has been confirmed by
archaeological evidence.
(HNQ, 10/7/00)

700-800 Vikings settled the Faeroe Islands in
the 8th century replacing Irish settlers. In 1948 the group of 18
islands, located between Britain and Iceland, became an autonomous
region of Denmark.
(SSFC, 7/29/07,
p.G8)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faroe_Islands)

800-900 In Scandinavia Futhark evolved around
the 9th century. Instead of 24 letters, the Scandinavian "Younger"
Futhark had 16 letters. In England, Anglo-Saxon Futhorc started to
be replaced by the Latin alphabet by the 9th century, and did not
survive much more past the Norman Conquest. Futhark continued to
be used in Scandinavia for centuries longer, but by 1600 CE, it
had become nothing more than curiosities among scholars and
antiquarians.
(www.ancientscripts.com/futhark.html)

866 Nov, Danish Viking Ivar
the Boneless first invaded the trading port of Eoforwic, the old
Roman settlement of Eboracum. The Jorvic Viking settlement was
discovered in 1976 when workers in York excavated for a new
shopping center.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian_York)(SSFC,
4/13/14, p.Q5)

871 Mar 2, Battle at Marton:
Ethelred van Wessex (d.871) beat the Danish invasion army.
Ethelred died in April and his brother Alfred (22) took over.
Alfred became Alfred the Great and ruled until 899.
(PCh, 1992, p.72)(SC, 3/2/02)

878 King Alfred faced the
invading Danes. In 1911 G.K. Chesterton authored the historical
novel “The Ballad of the White Horse" set in England during this
time.
(SSFC, 4/22/07, p.P10)

959-987 Harald Bluetooth, or Harald Blatand,
10th-century king of Denmark, attributed to himself the
unification of Denmark and the Christianization of the Danes. He
also conquered Norway and raided Normandy. He was later invaded
and defeated by German emperor Otto II.
(HNQ, 9/3/98)(AM, 11/00, p.21)

979-1016 Aethelred II, the Unrede (Unready),
ruled over England. He attempted to buy peace from Scandinavian
invaders and called for England’s 1st general tax, the Danegeld.
Some 140,000 pounds of silver was paid in tribute.
(WSJ, 5/24/01, p.A20)

1200-1300 The Danes built a castle at Narva,
Estonia.
(WSJ, 1/25/99, p.A1)

1361 Jul 27, The Battle of
Wisby (Visby) was fought near the town of Visby on the Swedish
island of Gotland, between the forces of the Danish king and the
Gotland peasants. The Danish force was victorious.
(Econ, 12/18/10,
p.111)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Visby)

1375-1412 Queen Margaret I (b.1353) ruled over
Denmark. In 1388 her rule extended over Norway and in 1389
extended to include Sweden.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_I_of_Denmark)

1375-1412 Queen Margaret I (b.1353) ruled over
Denmark. In 1388 her rule extended over Norway and in 1389
extended to include Sweden.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_I_of_Denmark)

1380 Iceland fell under
Danish control.
(HNQ, 4/28/00)

1397 Jun 17, The Union of
Kalmar united Denmark, Sweden, and Norway under one monarch. The
alliance grew out of the dynastic ties of the Scandinavian
countries of Denmark, Norway and Sweden in response to rising
German influence in the Baltic. The Kalmar Union is a
historiographical term meaning a series of personal unions
(1397–1523) that united the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway
(with Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands and, prior to their
annexation by Scotland in 1471, Shetland and Orkney), and Sweden
(including Finland) under a single monarch.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalmar_Union)

1494 Feb 20, Johan Friis
(d.1570), chancellor of Denmark (1532-1570), was born in Sweden.
He helped formed Lutheranism.
(http://tinyurl.com/7vnad)

1513 Christian II became King
of Denmark and Norway. He later asserted his right to the Swedish
throne by force of arms.
(TL-MB, p.10)

1523 Christian II was deposed
in Denmark after a civil war and was exiled. His uncle became King
Frederick I of Denmark and Norway.
(TL-MB, p.12)
1523 Sweden became
independent and dropped out of the Kalmar Union, formed in 1397
with Denmark and Norway.
(www.emersonkent.com/historic_documents/kalmar_union.htm)

1560 In Denmark Frederiksborg
Castle was built by King Frederick II (1534-1588). It was expanded
from 1602-1620 and served as the royal residence for King
Christian IV (1577-1648).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederiksborg_Palace)

1561 Poland-Lithuania gaining
control over Livonia. In response Sweden seized the territory of
Estonia with the major port of Reval. Denmark, also invested
in the war, seized the Livonian Islands.
(http://tinyurl.com/bngyy)

1562 Aug, Denmark under
Frederick II declared war against Sweden beginning the First
Northern War (1563-1570). The war ended with the Treaty of Stettin
(1570).
(http://tinyurl.com/9jgkk)

1570 Dec 5, Johan Friis,
chancellor of Denmark (b.1532), died. his share of spoliated
Church property had made him one of the wealthiest men in Denmark.
Under King Frederick II (1559-1588), who understood but little of
state affairs, Friis was well-nigh omnipotent. He was largely
responsible for the Scandinavian Seven Years' War (1562-1570),
which did so much to exacerbate the relations between Denmark and
Sweden.
(http://tinyurl.com/7vnad)

1570 Dec 15, The Peace of
Stettin was concluded in Livonia. Denmark recognized the
independence of Sweden in the Peace of Stettin. Sweden gave up her
claim to Norway.
(TL-MB,
p.22)(http://depts.washington.edu/baltic/papers/livonianwar.htm)

1572 Nov 11, A supernova was
observed in constellation known as Cassiopeia. Tycho Brahe, Danish
astronomer, discovered a nova in the constellation of Cassiopeia.
It is described in detail in his book "De Nova Stella" (1573). The
light eventually became as bright as Venus and could be seen for
two weeks in broad daylight. After 16 months, it disappeared.
(www.seds.org/~spider/spider/Vars/sn1572.html)(V.D.-H.K.p.197)
(AP, 12/4/08)(Econ, 1/14/17, p.73)

1588 Frederick II of Denmark
died and was succeeded by his 10 year-old son, Christian IV.
(TL-MB, p.24)

1588 Tycho Brahe, Danish
astronomer, had his financial support cut by a new Danish king and
moved to Prague where his student, Johannes Kepler, aided him and
to whom he left all his astronomical data.
(V.D.-H.K.p.197)

1676 Jun 1, The Swedish ship
Svardet, armed with 86 bronze canons and under command of Claes
Uggla, went under when Sweden was defeated by a Danish-Dutch fleet
in the Battle of Öland. In 2011 Deep Sea Productions said it
believed it had found the ship off the island of Oland.
(AP,
11/16/11)(www.ocean-discovery.org/thesword.htm)

1676 Ole Christensen Romer
(Roemer), Danish astronomer, derived a speed of light of 130,000
miles per second based on his observations of Io, the innermost
moon of Jupiter.
(http://inkido.indiana.edu/a100/timeline2.html)(NH, 2/05,
p.19)

1729-1801 The Danish East India Company was
chartered to carry on trade in the East Indies.
(WUD, 1994, p.449)

1732 Apr 17, The 2nd
Kamchatka Expedition was announced in the Russian Senate and Vitus
Bering was named as captain commander. I.K. Kirilov, chief
secretary of the senate, expanded Bering’s mandate to include
astronomical and scientific observations, to explore the seas
between Siberia and Japan and to establish trade relations with
peoples encountered.
(ON, 2/06, p.1)

1741 Jul 15, George Steller,
an observer with Vitus Bering (1680-1741), claimed to see the
American mainland (Alaska). Bering, a Danish-born mariner, was on
an exploratory mission on behalf of Russia.
(WSJ, 9/12/00, p.A24)(SFEC, 3/23/97, p.T5)(ON,
2/06, p.2)

1741 Dec 8, Vitus Bering,
Danish-born explorer and commander in the Russian navy, died on an
island off the Kamchatka Peninsula, later named Bering Island.
(ON, 2/06, p.4)

1748 The Danish Royal Theater
was inaugurated.
(SFEC, 11/1/98, p.T3)

1750 Germany returned the
island of Aero, which measures 22 by 6 miles, to Denmark.
(SSFC, 7/29/07, p.G3)

1764 Jan 19, Bolle Willum
Luxdorph, a Danish diarist, described what is believed to be the
first successful parcel bomb.
(Econ, 11/6/10, p.74)

1768 Johan Friedrich
Struensee, a German doctor, was appointed as personal physician to
the insane young King Christian VII of Denmark. The doctor became
lover to the queen, Caroline Mathilde, the younger sister of
George III of England. Struensee was arrested and executed after 2
years.
(WSJ, 12/7/01, p.W16)

1790s Denmark became the 1st
country to abolish slavery.
(WSJ, 2/26/02, p.A22)

1792 May 16, Denmark
abolished slave trade.
(MC, 5/16/02)

1799 Nov 5, The Danish ship
Oldenborg was wrecked on her outward passage by being beached in
the roadstead at Cape Town, South Africa, during a north-westerly
gale, thus becoming one of the 127 ships that have been lost on
this minuscule portion of the South African coast.
(www.milhist.dk/weapons/oldenbur/oldenbur.htm)

1800 The Althing of Iceland
was abolished by the Danish king.
(HNQ, 4/28/00)

1801 Apr 2, The British navy
defeated the Danish at the Battle of Copenhagen.
(AP, 4/2/99)

1803 Denmark became the first
country to ban slave trade.
(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R25)

1807 Sep 2, British forces
began bombarding Copenhagen for several days, until the Danes
agreed to surrender their naval fleet.
(AP, 9/2/07)

1807 Sep 7, Denmark
surrendered to British forces that had bombarded the city of
Copenhagen for four days.
(AP, 9/7/07)

1813 May 5, Soren Kierkegaard
(d.1855), Danish philosopher and theologian, was born. He founded
Existentialism and believed that man's relation to God must be an
agonizing experience. “Truth is not introduced into the individual
from without, but was within him all the time." His books included
the philosophical novel “Diary of a Seducer."
(WUD, 1994, p.786)(AP, 10/23/97)(SFC, 9/4/98,
p.C5)(HN, 5/5/99)

1814 Jan 14, The Treaty of
Kiel or Peace of Kiel was concluded between the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland and the Kingdom of Sweden on one side
and the Kingdoms of Denmark and Norway on the other side in Kiel.
It ended the hostilities between the parties in the ongoing
Napoleonic Wars, where the United Kingdom and Sweden were part of
the anti-French camp (the Sixth Coalition) while Denmark-Norway
was allied to Napoleon Bonaparte.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Kiel)

1814 The union between the
crowns of Denmark and Norway was dissolved. The Treaty of Kiel
severed Norway's former colonies and left them under the control
of the Danish monarch. Greenland became a Danish colony, and a
part of the Danish Realm in 1953 under the Constitution of
Denmark.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland)

1828 The Danish government
decreed that all persons should have a surname which was inherited
from the preceding generation.
(http://share-hodgson.org/patronym.html)(NYT,
10/8/04, p.A4)

1829 Hans Christian Andersen
(1805-1875) published his first literary work: “A Walking Tour
from Holmen’s Canal to the Eastern Point of Amager."
(ON, 7/06, p.7)

1830 August Bournonville
(1805-1879) founded the Danish ballet tradition, the world's
oldest living ballet heritage. At the age of 25 he became
principal dancer and artistic director for the Royal Danish Ballet
and continued to work there for 47 years.
(www.bournonville.com/mainpage_frame.asp?page=26)

1835 Apr, Hans Christian
Andersen (1805-1875) published novel “Improvisatore," an
alternative version of his own life based on his travel
experiences in Italy.
(ON, 7/06, p.7)

1848 Mar 24, The First
Schleswig War began. It was the first round of military conflict
in southern Denmark and northern Germany rooted in the
Schleswig-Holstein Question and contested the issue of who should
control the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein. The 3-year war
lasted from 1848–1851.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Schleswig_War)

1848 Jul 3, Gen. Peter Von
Scholten, faced with the likely destruction of towns and
plantations by a slave revolt, declared the slaves of the Danish
West Indies (later US Virgin Islands) to be freed.
(SSFC, 7/5/09, p.A3)

1849 May 3, Jacob Riis
(d.1914), American reporter and reformer (How the Other Half
Lives), was born in Denmark.
(HN,
5/3/01)(www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAriis.htm)

1852 May 8, A war between
Denmark and Prussia lasted three years (1848–50) and ended only
when the Great Powers pressured Prussia into accepting the London
Protocol of 1852. This was the revision of an earlier protocol,
which had been ratified on August 2, 1850, by the major Germanic
powers of Austria and Prussia. The 1852 London Protocol confirmed
that the duchies of Schleswig-Holstein should remain undivided.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Protocol)(Econ,
6/23/12, p.20)

1859 Hans Christian Anderson
gave his story "The Philosopher's Stone" to a family during his
trip to the Jutland region. The 13-page script was sold at auction
in 1999 for $75,400.
(SFC, 4/16/99, p.C8)

1864 May 9, Austria and
Denmark held a ship battle at Helgoland.
(MC, 5/9/02)

1864 Prussia and Austria
snatched Schleswig-Holstein from Denmark. The border was redrawn
by plebiscite in 1920. After 1945 Germany and Denmark agreed to
recognize the rights of minorities on both sides.
(Econ, 6/2/12, p.66)

1865 May 21, C.J. Thomsen,
archaeologist who named the Stone, Iron and Bronze Ages, was born
in Denmark.
(MC, 5/21/02)

1865 Jun 9, Carl Nielsen,
Danish composer, was born.
(HN, 6/9/01)

1866 Denmark passed a law
against blasphemy.
(SFC, 2/24/17, p.A2)

1867 Denmark reached a deal
to transfer Saint Thomas and Saint John (part of the Virgin
Islands) to the United States to the US for $7.5 million, but a
hurricane, earthquake, tsunami and fire, as well as domestic and
int’l. political conflicts delayed the transfer for 50 years.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Virgin_Islands)(SSFC,
3/27/11, p.M3)

1868 Oct 16, Denmark ended
its involvement in India by selling the rights to the Nicobar
Islands to the British.
(SFC, 11/3/11, p.A2)

1872 Aug 3, Haakon VII, King
of Norway, was born in Charlottenlund, Denmark.
(SC, 8/3/02)

1884 In Denmark the Alexander
Nevski church was built in Copenhagen on a request by Czarina
Maria Feodorovna, the Danish-born mother of Nicholas II.
(AP, 1/20/10)

1875 Aug 4, Hans Christian
Andersen (b.1805), Danish fairy tale writer, died. Over his life
he wrote 156 fairy tales as well as numerous novels and travel
books. His biography was later written by Elias Bredsdorff (d.2002
at 90).
(SFC, 8/23/02, p.A27)(ON, 7/06, p.8)

1885 Apr 17, Karen
Blixen-Finecke (Isak Dinesen, d.1962), Danish writer (Out of
Africa), was born. “God made the world round so we would never be
able to see too far down the road."
(AP, 9/15/00)(HN, 4/17/01)(MC, 4/17/02)

1885 Oct 7, Nils Bohr, Danish
physicist who won the 1992 Nobel Prize for physics and later
worked on the first atom bomb, was born.
(HN, 10/7/98)(MC, 10/7/01)

1905 Nov 18, The Norwegian
Parliament elected Prince Charles of Denmark to be the next King
of Norway. Prince Charles took the name Haakon VII.
(HN, 11/18/98)

1909 Jan 3, Victor Borge
(d.2000 at 91), musical humorist, was born as Borge Rosenbaum in
Copenhagen. In 1953 he opened his “Comedy in Music" at the Golden
Theater on Broadway and played for 849 performances .
(SSFC, 12/24/00, p.B5)(440 Int'l. 1/3/99)

1913 The bronze statue of the
Little Mermaid, a character from a Hans Christian Anderson story,
was installed in the Copenhagen harbor. It was commissioned by
Carl Jacobsen, founder of the Carlsberg Beer Co., and created by
Edvard Eriksen. [see 1964]
(SFC,11/5/97, p.C2)

1914-1931 Karen Blixen, Danish author, lived on
a farm near Nairobi, Kenya. Her lover was Denys Finch-Hatton. She
wrote under the name Isak Dinesen. The two were featured in the
1985 film “Out of Africa" that starred Robert Redford and Meryl
Streep. The country was then called British East Africa.
(SFC, 6/17/98, p.E1)(SFEC, 7/26/98, p.T10)

1916 Feb 13, Vilhelm
Hammershoi (b.1864), Danish painter, died. He is most celebrated
for his interiors, many of which he painted at his residence in
Copenhagen.
(Econ, 7/5/08, p.94)

1916 May 31, During World War
I, British and German fleets fought the Battle of Skagerrak at
Jutland off Denmark and 10,000 were left dead. There was no
clear-cut victor, although the British suffered heavier losses.
(HN, 5/31/98)(AP, 5/31/06)

1916 Aug 4, The United States
signed a treaty to purchase the Danish Virgin Islands for $25
million. The US purchased the southern Virgin Islands including
St. Thomas, St. John, St. Croix and about 50 other small Caribbean
islets and cays from Denmark. They were then known as the Danish
West Indies. The Act of March 3, 1917, authorized payment by the
US of $25 million for the Virgin Islands.
(WUD, 1994, p.1595)(AP, 8/4/97)(HNQ, 11/20/99)

1916 Dec 14, People of
Denmark voted to sell Danish West Indies to United States for $25
million [see Aug 4]. This included the islands of St. John, St.
Thomas and St. Croix.
(AP, 12/14/02)(Econ, 7/16/16, World IF
p.7)

1917 Jan 17, The United
States paid Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands.
(AP, 1/17/07)

1917 Mar 31, The United
States took possession of the Virgin Islands. The purchase from
Denmark for $25 million had been set up in 1916.
(AP,
3/30/97)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Virgin_Islands)

1922 Otto Jesperson
(1860-1943), Danish linguist, authored “Language: Its Nature,
Development and Origins." “Men sang out their feelings long before
they were able to speak their thoughts. But of course we must not
imagine that "singing" means exactly the same thing here as in a
modern concert hall. When we say that speech originated in song,
what we mean is merely that our comparatively monotonous spoken
language and our highly developed vocal music are differentiations
of primitive utterances, which had more in them of the latter than
of the former. These utterances were, at first, like the singing
of birds and the roaring of many animals and the crooning of
babies, exclamative, not communicative--that is, they came forth
from an inner craving of the individual without any thought of any
fellow-creatures. Our remote ancestors had not the slightest
notion that such a thing as communicating ideas and feelings to
someone else was possible."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Jespersen)(www.lawrence.edu/fast/koopmajo/antiquity.html)

1928 The silent film classic
"Passion of Joan of Arc" was directed by Carl Theodore Dreyer of
Denmark. It later led to a 70 minute oratorio for solo singers,
chorus, and chamber orchestra by Richard Einhorn.
(SFC, 10/11/96, p.C6)(WSJ, 10/8/98, p.W5)

1928 In Denmark Palle Huld
(d.2010) won a competition organized by Danish newspaper that
wanted to send a teenager would-be-reporter around the globe. For
44 days the 15-year-old traveled to North America, Japan, Siberia
and Germany, and was greeted by 20,000 people upon his return to
Copenhagen. Herge, the pen name of Belgian author Georges Remi,
heard of Huld's journey which reportedly inspired him to create
Tintin, the globe-trotting reporter.
(AP, 12/5/10)

1928 Maria Feodorovna
(b.1847), the daughter of Denmark's King Christian IX and Queen
Louise, died in Denmark. Princess Dagmar had married Russia’s Czar
Alexander II and their six children included Nicholas II, who
became czar in 1894. She fled St. Petersburg in 1917. Her casket
rested alongside Danish kings and queens until 2006 when it was
sent to Russia.
(AP, 9/23/06)

1931 Jul, Norway occupied
then-uninhabited eastern Greenland as Erik the Red's Land,
claiming that it constituted terra nullius. Norway and Denmark
agreed to submit the matter in 1933 to the Permanent Court of
International Justice, which decided against Norway.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland)

1931 Einar Weigener, a Danish
painter, had his sex altered in the first surgical procedure of
its kind.
(SFEC, 2/27/00, BR p.5)

1932 Apr, In Denmark 6 of the
world’s leading quantum physicists gathered at Niels Bohr’s
Institute for Theoretical Physics to discuss the latest
developments in the field. In 2007 Gino Segre authored “Faust in
Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics." The book is
organized around a short comedy performed at the end of the
meeting.
(SSFC, 6/24/07, p.M3)(Econ, 7/14/07, p.87)

1932 Denmark’s LEGO Group was
founded by Ole Kirk Kristiansen, a carpenter. The name came from
the Danish words leg godt (play well). Christiansen and his
grandson perfected toy bricks made of wood and later shifted to
plastic. Lego produced its first interlocking bricks in 1949.
(www.lego.com/en-us/aboutus/lego-group)(Econ,
4/28/12, p.76)(Econ, 3/8/14, p.71)(Econ, 1/16/16, p.46)

1935 Mar 16, Aron Nimzowitsch
(b.1886), a Latvian-born Danish chess player, died. In 1925 he
authored “My System," which he described as a chess manual based
on entirely new principles.
(WSJ, 3/22/08,
p.W10)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aron_Nimzowitsch)

1935-1970 Denmark gave sex offenders a choice
between prison or surgical castration. The practice was banned due
to criticism that it was inhumane and irreversible.
(SFC, 8/31/96, p.A12)

1940 Apr 9, The Nazi army
invaded and occupied Denmark and Norway. German forces landed
along the Norwegian coast and made a paratrooper assault on Oslo
and Stavanger. After the Nazi invasion most of Denmark’s police
were killed.
(WSJ, 4/29/96, p.C-1)(SFEC, 1/26/97, p.A14)(AP,
4/9/97)(ON, 11/05, p.3)

1940 Apr 9, The Nazi army
invaded and occupied Denmark and Norway. German forces landed
along the Norwegian coast and made a paratrooper assault on Oslo
and Stavanger. After the Nazi invasion most of Denmark’s police
were killed.
(WSJ, 4/29/96, p.C-1)(SFEC, 1/26/97, p.A14)(AP,
4/9/97)(ON, 11/05, p.3)

1940 The term "genetic
engineering" was coined in Poland, by Danish microbiologist A.
Jost while giving a lecture on the sex life of yeast at the
Technical Institute in Lwow, Poland.
(Internet)

1941 Mar 30, The U.S. seized
Italian, German and Danish ships in 16 ports.
(HN, 3/30/98)

1941 Physicist Neils Bohr met
with Werner Heisenberg in Copenhagen. In 2000 the meeting was
portrayed in a play by Michael Frayn: “Copenhagen.’
(WSJ, 4/12/00, p.A24)

1944 - 1945 May, Nazi's kept some 2000 Danish policemen in
custody. Most of them in KZ-camps, brought to Neuengamme and from
there to places as Buchenwald and Stutthof in Germany. After
Danish negotiations with the Germans the Nazi's accepted their
status as prisoners of war and 1600 came to the POW-camp at
Mühlberg. Around 100 Danish policemen died in the camps.
(http://politihistorier.dk/english/days-to-remember.html)

1945 Mar 21, A British
bombing raid was made on Gestapo Headquarters in Denmark to thwart
a planned German arrest of the leadership of the banned Freedom
Council. A 2nd wave of bombers hit a school by mistake killing 86
students and 13 adults.
(SFC, 9/23/02, p.B5)

1945 May 4, German forces in
the Netherlands, Denmark and northwest Germany agreed to
surrender.
(AP, 5/4/00)

1945 May 5, Netherlands and
Denmark were liberated from Nazi control. The Liberation of the
Netherlands was completed by the First Canadian Army.
(HN,
5/5/98)(www.bouwman.com/netherlands/Liberation.html)

1945 May 28, Lord Haw Haw
(aka William Joyce), a virulent anti-Semite who broadcast pro-Nazi
propaganda from Germany during the war, was shot in the leg in an
encounter with two British officers near Flensburg on the Danish
border with Germany. He was sentenced to death for treason on 19
September 1945 and hanged on 3 January 1946.
(http://www.shef.ac.uk/library/special/joyce.html)

1946 Scandinavian airlines
began as a co-operative venture between the airlines of Denmark,
Norway and Sweden. In 1951 they merged. Marcus Wallenberg Jr.
(1899-1982), tennis champion, sold out of railways to concentrate
on airplanes. Wallenberg helped to establish the Scandinavian
Airlines System and controlled companies that employed one of
every eight working Swedes.
(www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,925746-2,00.html)(Econ,
10/14/06, p.73)(Econ, 5/19/12, p.74)

1948 Axel Axgil (1915-2011),
born Axel Lundahl-Madsen, was among the founding members of gay
rights group LGBT Danmark.
(AP, 10/30/11)

1949 Mar 6, Robert Storm
Petersen (b.1882), Danish cartoonist, writer, animator,
illustrator, painter and humorist, died. He is known almost
exclusively by his pen name Storm P.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Storm_Petersen)

1949 Apr 4, The (NATO) North
Atlantic Treaty Organization pact was signed by the US, Great
Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Italy,
Portugal, Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Canada. It provided for
mutual defense against aggression and for close military
cooperation.
(www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/official_texts_17120.htm)(TOH,
1982, p.1949)

1949 Oct 28, Eugenie Anderson
became the 1st woman US ambassador. She was posted to Denmark.
(HFA, ‘96, p.40)(MC, 10/28/01)

1950 Denmark founded the
Sirius Patrol, a unit of the Danish navy, to patrol Greenland.
(SFC, 6/15/00, p.C4)

1951 NATO member Denmark
allowed the US to build 33 bases and radar stations in Greenland,
but the deal did not specify who would be responsible for any
cleanup. In 2016 Greenland's local leaders urged Denmark to remove
the junk that the Americans left behind.
(AP, 11/26/16)

1952 Apr 26, In Denmark the
body of a man dating to the 3rd century BC was discovered in peaty
swamp near the village of Grauballe, Jutland. Upon excavation it
was moved to the Prehistoric Museum in Aarhus, where it underwent
research and conservation.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grauballe_Man)(SSFC, 8/10/14,
p.L6)

1954 May 1, Legos, founded by
Danish carpenter Ole Kirk Christiansen, became a registered
trademark in Denmark.
(http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bllego.htm)

1957 Denmark banned nuclear
weapons from its soil.
(AP, 10/29/10)

1958 Legos, the toy Lego
building block kit with simple red bricks, was introduced with
8-stud bricks that could be combined 24 ways. The company was
founded by Danish carpenter Ole Kirk Christiansen in 1932. Legos
became a registered trademark in 1954. The name was derived from
“les godt," Danish for play well.
(SFC, 1/9/99, p.B8)(Econ, 10/28/06, p.76)

1958 Monkeypox was first
described in Denmark when several monkey imports developed
lesions. The disease emerged in the Congo in 1970 with sporadic
outbreaks over the years, primarily in Central and West Africa.
Ten percent of those infected can die, and there is evidence of
person-to-person transmission.
(AP, 11/29/06)

1959 Nov 20, Seven European
nations (Austria, Britain, Denmark, Norway, Portugal, Sweden,
Switzerland) signed the Stockholm Convention to form the European
Free Trade Association (EFTA). The organization becoming operative
on May 3, 1960. After the accession of Denmark, Ireland, and the
UK to the EEC in January 1973, the EFTA began to falter. Portugal
(1985), followed in 1995 by Austria, Finland and Sweden, left to
join the EU. In 2017 Four members remained: Switzerland, Norway,
Liechtenstein and Iceland.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Free_Trade_Association)

1960 Aug 26, Knud Jensen
(23), Danish cyclist, collapsed while riding in a 100-km team
trial at the Olympics in Rome. He fractured his skull and died. An
autopsy revealed amphetamines in his blood. His death would led
the International Olympic Committee to begin a program of drug
testing beginning with the 1968 Games held in Grenoble, France and
Mexico City, Mexico.
(WSJ, 8/7/06,
p.B1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knud_Enemark_Jensen)

1966 Danish motorcycle gangs
have been around for about 30 years, when local clubs like the
Avengers, Heathens, Hogriders, Pirates, and Pagans began forming.
(WSJ, 5/24/96, p.A-4)

1967 May 11, The United
Kingdom re-applied to join the European Community. It is followed
by Ireland and Denmark and, a little later, by Norway. General de
Gaulle is still reluctant to accept British accession.
(http://europa.eu.int/abc/history/1967/index_en.htm)

1967 Olafur Eliasson, artist,
was born in Denmark to Icelandic parents. He later created
121ethiopia.org, a charitable organization to finance orphanages
in Ethiopia.
(Econ, 10/6/07,
p.100)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%93lafur_El%C3%ADasson)

1968 Jan 21, An American B-52
bomber carrying four hydrogen bombs crashed at North Star Bay,
Greenland, killing one crew member and scattering radioactive
material. Reports began to surface later and in 1995 the Danish
government paid a $15.5 million settlement to some 1,700 exposed
workers.
(www.ens-newswire.com/ens/aug2004/2004-08-09-02.asp)(AP,
1/21/08)

1968 The original Legoland
was built in Billund, Denmark.
(SFEC, 2/7/99, p.T3)

1968 A Danish geologist
published a paper on the Greenland Ice Cap that included melting
threats to it. The study used core samples that drilled down to
bedrock.
(WSJ, 6/8/06, p.D8)

1969 Peter V. Glob
(1911-1985), Danish archeologist, authored "The Bog People: Iron
Age Man Preserved."
(AM, 7/97,
p.62)(www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Peter-Glob)
1969 San Francisco's hardcore
pioneer director/producer Alex de Renzy, in his directorial debut
with reputed sexologists Phyllis and Eberhard Kronhausen,
conducted interviews with uninhibited Danes, along with closeups
of every detail of conventional sexual intercourse and depictions
of lesbianism, fellatio, and cunnilingus. A 90-minute version
screened in San Francisco was later confiscated and the film was
banned in a number of states. In the wake of the landmark decision
in People v. Alex de Renzy the documentary film “Pornography in
Denmark" went into wide release.
(www.filmsite.org/sexinfilms21.html)(SFC,
7/12/11, p.E1)

1971 The Roskilde rock
festival, inspired by Woodstock, was first held in Denmark.
(SFC, 7/1/00, p.A12)
1971 Denmark became the first
European country to create a Cabinet-level ministry dealing
exclusively with the environment.
(SFC, 12/15/99, p.AA6)
1971 In Denmark the
Christiana enclave took root in Copenhagen when dozens of hippies
moved into the derelict 18th-century navy fort on 600 acres of
state-owned land.
(AP, 3/16/04)(SSFC, 10/31/04, p.A3)
1971 In Denmark the
Jyllands-Posten newspaper declared itself politically independent.
(AP, 2/8/06)

1973 Jan 1, The European
Economic Community (EEC), the forerunner to the EU, admitted
Britain, Ireland and Denmark even though they made chocolate
containing a small percentage of vegetable fat. Members as
required handed away control of trade-deal negotiation.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_European_Union)(WSJ,
12/4/97, p.A22)(Econ, 7/16/16, p.47)

1973 Oct 20, Queen Elizabeth
II opened the Sydney Opera House. It was designed by Danish
architect Joern Utzon and cost 102 million Australian dollars, 14
times the original estimate. Utzon left the project in 1966. In
2000 Utzon was named consulting architect and in 2003 was called
back to redo the interiors.
(SFEC, 1/4/98, p.T4)(SFEC, 9/10/00, p.T12)(WSJ,
10/2/03, p.D10)

1975 Oct, Aage Nills Bohr
(b.1922), Denmark-born physicist, won the Nobel Prize in Physics
for his study of the atomic nucleus. Ben Mottelson (b.1926),
Danish-American physicist and James Rainwater (1917-1986),
American physicist, also shared the prize.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates)

1977 Dec 12, Dr. Grethe Rask
(b.1930) from Denmark died of Pneumocystis carinii. She had done
research in Africa. Her symptoms had been manifesting in Dec 1976
and she was hospitalized in Africa. In November 1977 after a brief
recovery, she decided it was time to go home to die. A colleague
saw the wasting, and did an autopsy, where P. carinii was found.
She is believed to be one of the first documented cases of
probable AIDS infection.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grethe_Rask)

1979 May 1, Denmark gave home
rule to Greenland, but continued to make key decisions on law and
order. The legislative basis for the Home Rule Administration is
Act no 56 of 21 February 1979 which came into force on 1 May 1979
following a referendum in Greenland.
(WSJ, 1/13/04,
p.A4)(www.gh.gl/uk/govern/organiza.htm)

1982 Feb 23, In a
consultative referendum, Greenland, which became a member of the
European Community as part of Denmark, opted for withdrawal from
the Community.
(http://europa.eu.int/abc/history/1982/index_en.htm)

1982 Denmark’s monetary
policy was tied to the German mark.
(WSJ, 2/6/98, p.A1)

1982 The Stichting Ingka
Foundation, a Dutch-registered, tax-exempt, non-profit legal
entity, was given the shares of Ingvar Kamprad (b.1926), the
Swedish founder of IKEA. In 2006 Ingka Holding, a private
Dutch-registered company, was the parent of 207 of 235 worldwide
IKEA companies, and it belonged to the Stichting Ingka Foundation.
(Econ, 5/13/06, p.69)(SFC, 4/6/04, p.C3)

1985 A bombing in Copenhagen
killed one person and injured 16. Mohammed Abu Talb was arrested
in Sweden in1989 for the bombing.
(SFC, 11/25/99, p.A14)

1986 The Hell’s Angels began
renting a building in Copenhagen from the city.
(SFEC, 8/11/96, p.A13)

1987 Denmark recognized
Copenhagen’s Christiana enclave, founded in 1971, as a social
experiment. In 1991 the government gave residents the right to use
the land. In 2006 the government proposed a plan to regularize
housing in the enclave.
(SSFC, 10/22/06, p.G3)

1992 Mar 5, In Copenhagen the
Ministers for Foreign Affairs of Denmark, Estonia, Finland,
Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Russia and Sweden, in
the presence of the representative from the European Commission,
opened a 2-day meeting and decided to establish a Council of the
Baltic Sea States to serve as a forum for guidance and overall
coordination among the participating states. Iceland joined the
CBSS in 1995
(Econ, 6/7/08,
p.63)(www.bmwi.de/English/Navigation/European-policy/baltic-market.html)

1993 May 18, Voters in
Denmark ratified the European Community's Maastricht Treaty on
closer economic and political union.
(AP, 5/18/98)(SC, 5/18/02)

1993 Jun, EU membership
criteria were laid down at the European Council in Copenhagen,
Denmark. Under the “Copenhagen criteria" would-be EU members were
required to show that they meet the political and institutional
standards of membership.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_criteria)(Econ,
12/2/06, p.55)

1993 The Danish chapter of
the Bandidos motorcycle gang started out as the 666 club, changed
its name to the Morticians, then the Undertakers, and then
affiliated in 1993 with the Texas-based Bandidos.
(WSJ, 5/24/96, p.A-4)

1994-1997 A Danish nurse and doctor killed 22
nursing-home residents with injections. They were charged in 1997
for the killings and the nurse was also charged with embezzlement.
(SFC,10/22/97, p.1)

1995 Lars Von Trier, a Danish
film director, launched the Dogma 95 concept of minimalist rules
to return the focus of filmmaking to story and plot. The rules
forbade sound editing and any equipment beyond handheld cameras.
(SFC, 8/10/02, p.D4)

1995 Danish Foreign Minister
Niels Helveg Petersen told reporters that no nuclear weapons were
deployed in Greenland. 2 weeks later US Sec. of Defense William
Perry wrote in a confidential letter that warheads and surface to
air missiles had been stored at the Thule air base without
Greenland’s knowledge. The crisis became known as "Thulegate" in
Denmark.
(SFC, 11/3/01, p.C3)

1996 May, It was reported
that Danish motorcycle gangs, engaged in a 2-year feud, had left 4
people slain and 20 wounded in a rivalry between the local
chapters and supporters of Hells Angels and the Bandidos.
(SFC, 5/22/96, p.A11)

1996 Jul 7, The average cost
of a Big Mac in Denmark was $4.40.
(SFC, 7/7/96, Parade, p.17)

1996 Jul 21, Thirteen pounds
of explosives were hurled at the Hell’s Angel’s headquarters in
Copenhagen. Their compound consists of 5 buildings surrounded by a
10-foot fence.
(SFEC, 8/11/96, p.A13)
1996 Jul 21, Danish cyclist
Bjarne Riis won the Tour de France. In 2007 he admitted to using
performance enhancing drugs to win the race.
(WSJ, 5/26/07,
p.A1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Tour_de_France)

1996 Aug 3, In Denmark a
Gulfstream jet crashed and killed Copenhagen’s top military
officer and 8 others as it approached a Faroe Islands airstrip.
(WSJ, 8/5/96, p.A1)

1996 Nov 20, The Danish film
“Breaking the Waves" by Lars von Trier opened in SF. His other
films include “Zentropa" and “The Kingdom."
(SFC, 11/20/96, p.E3)

1996 A Danish government
admitted in a report that the United States had stored nuclear
weapons in Greenland during the Cold War, although Denmark had
banned nuclear weapons from its soil in 1957.
(AP, 10/29/10)

1998 Feb 1, The head of the
Little Mermaid reattached in Copenhagen.
(SFC, 2/3/98, p.A7)

1998 Apr 27, Some 550,000
Danish workers walked of their jobs after unions turned down a
compromise contract. The unions called for a 6th week of paid
vacation.
(SFC, 4/30/98, p.A10)

1998 May 6, The Danish
government intervened to end a ten day strike by 500,000 workers.
It was planned to make strikes illegal until March, 2000, and
offered 2 extra vacation days and an additional 3 days of family
leave for working parents with children under 14.
(WSJ, 5/7/98, p.A16)

1998 May 21, Jack Lynd (71),
San Francisco cab driver, news writer, jazz aficionado (Café
Babar), died of cancer in Denmark. His work included the book
“Leo’s Place."
(CB, 5/31/98)

1998 The Danish film "The
Kingdom II" was the 2nd of a series by director Lars von Trier. It
starred Ernst-Hugo Jaregard and Kristen Riolffes. It was about
some bizarre and horrifying occurrences at a city hospital in
Copenhagen
(SFC, 5/25/98, p.E3)

2000 Genmab, a biotech
company based in Denmark, went public with Dr. Lisa Drakeman of
the US as CEO. Drakeman, with a doctorate in the history of
religion, had gained biotech experience in Medarex, a firm created
by her husband. In 2006 GlaxoSmithKline paid $357 million for a
10% stake in the company.
(Econ, 6/14/08, p.84)

2001 Mar 29, An oil tanker
collided with a freighter in the Baltic Sea and some 550,000
gallons of oil were spilled and drifted toward Denmark.
(SFC, 3/30/01, p.D4)

2001 Nov 20, The Liberal
(Venstre) Party under Anders Fogh Rasmussen (1953) won elections
in Denmark. It formed a minority government with the Conservative
People’s Party.
(www.andersfogh.dk/807.0.html)

2001 KaZaA, an internet
file-sharing program, was founded in Amsterdam by Niklas Zennstrom
of Sweden and Janus Friis of Denmark. In 2003 they launched Skype
software for internet telephony.
(Econ, 7/3/04,
p.54)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype)
2001 Braathens, a Norwegian
airline, was taken over by the SAS Group, partly owned by the
governments of Sweden, Denmark and Norway. It merged with SAS in
2004.
(Econ, 4/27/13,
p.61)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braathens)

2002 Mar 3, Denmark generated
13% of its electricity from wind and planned to raise the figure
to 50% by 2030.
(SSFC, 3/3/02, p.A3)

2002 Jul 6, Asian and
European finance ministers meeting in Copenhagen were presented a
study that called for the creation of a currency basket system and
ultimately a single Asian currency. The study was part of the Kobe
Research Project, an initiative launched by ASEM in 2001.
(Reuters, 7/7/02)(http://tinyurl.com/79d6f)

2002 Sep 24, The Danish
government announced that the US will return to Denmark a section
of the U.S. air base at Thule in northern Greenland that was
created in 1953.
(AP, 9/24/02)

2003 Jun 2, In Denmark
Thorkild Grosboel, a Lutheran minister, was suspended for saying
that God doesn't exist and there is no eternal life. Lutheran
pastors in Denmark are employed by the state and bishops cannot
fire them.
(AP, 6/3/03)(Econ, 6/28/03, p.55)

2003 Aug 7, Denmark's
unemployment rate rose in June to 6.2 percent, the highest level
in almost five years.
(AP, 8/7/03)

2003 Sep 23, A power outage
struck the capital of Denmark and southern Sweden, leaving nearly
4 million people without electricity.
(AP, 9/23/03)

2003 Oct, Denmark cut taxes
on spirits by 45%.
(Econ, 11/15/03, p.49)

2003 Dec 16, A fire broke out
at Denmark's North Sea Museum, destroying much of the building
housing Europe's largest aquarium.
(AP, 12/17/03)

2003 Denmark became the first
country in the world to introduce restrictions on the use of
industrially produced trans fatty acids. Oils and fats were
forbidden on the Danish market if they contain trans fatty acids
exceeding 2%.
(www.bakeryandsnacks.com/news/ng.asp?id=58838-adm-ramps-up)
2003 Denmark, population 5.4
million, stood as the world's biggest exporter of pork as some
13,000 farmers raised 24 million pigs.
(Econ, 8/9/03, p.44)

2004 Jan 4, In Denmark
residents who openly bought and sold hashish at a famous hippie
enclave in Copenhagen abruptly demolished their booths, trying to
head off a Danish government crackdown on illegal drug sales.
(AP, 1/4/04)

2004 Jan 11, Danish and
Icelandic troops reported a cache of 36 shells buried in the Iraqi
desert, and preliminary tests showed they contained a liquid
blister agent. The 120mm mortar shells are thought to be left over
from the eight-year war between Iraq and neighboring Iran, which
ended in 1988.
(AP, 1/11/04)

2004 Feb 24, The 1st charges
were filed against 2 detainees in Guantanamo. Slimane Hadj
Abderrahmane, a Danish citizen, was released from Guantanamo after
being held for 747 days. In 2007 he was arrested in Denmark on
suspicion of withdrawing $18,900 from other people's accounts
using stolen debit cards and PIN codes.
(WSJ, 2/25/04, p.A1)(AP, 8/17/07)

2004 Mar 16, In Denmark
police raided Copenhagen's famed hippie enclave of Christiania,
detaining 53 people in a major crackdown on the open sale of
hashish. The enclave took root in 1971 when dozens of hippies
moved into the derelict 18th-century fort on state-owned land.
(AP, 3/16/04)

2004 Apr 11, Henrik Frandsen,
a 35-year-old plumber from Copenhagen, was reported missing in
Iraq. Iraqi police found his body the next day.
(AP, 4/21/04)

2004 Apr, Bjorn Lomborg
(b.1965), Danish environmentalist, was named one of the 100
globally most influential people by Time magazine. In May he
organized the Copenhagen Consensus, a list of priorities to make
the world a better place. In 2006 he authored “Global Crises,
Global Solutions."
(Econ, 6/24/06,
p.38)(www.lomborg.com/biograph.htm)

2004 Jun, The Danish
government raised the fine for smoking hash in public to $90 and
ordered clubs where it was smoked to be shut down.
(SSFC, 10/31/04, p.A3)

2004 Jul 1, Law 205 took
effect in Denmark and required residents to register themselves
and their homes with the government.
(SSFC, 10/31/04, p.A3)

2004 Jul 12, The Danish
government upheld the clerical suspension of a Lutheran minister
who proclaimed last year that there was no God or afterlife, and
he now could be fired or fined for declaring his beliefs in the
pulpit.
(AP, 7/12/04)

2004 Oct 4, The Denmark
Science Ministry said it aims to show the North Pole belongs to
Denmark and is sending an expedition to try to prove that the
seabed there is a natural continuation of Danish territory.
(AP, 10/4/04)

2004 Oct, Some 10,000 people
marched on Denmark’s parliament to protest Law 205.
(SSFC, 10/31/04, p.A3)

2005 Jan 1, Denmark was
forecast for 2.5% GDP growth with a population at 5.4 million and
GDP per head at $48,920.
(Econ, 1/8/05, p.87)
2005 Jan 1, Denmark’s PM
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, in response to cartoons published by
Jyllands-Posten depicting the prophet Muhammad, condemned in his
new year’s speech any attempt to demonize groups of people on the
basis of religion or ethnic background.
(Econ, 1/7/06, p.44)

2005 May 4, The Danish
government said that the mission of Denmark's 530 troops in
southern Iraq would be extended until Feb 1.
(AP, 5/4/05)

2005 Jul 5, President Bush
thanked Iraq war ally Denmark during a stopover in Copenhagen
while en route to an international economic summit in Scotland.
(AP, 7/5/06)

2005 Aug 19, The Danish
pump-making company Grundfos said that two of its employees
accepted bribes from Iraqi officials under the United Nations'
tainted oil-for-food program.
(AP, 8/20/05)

2005 Sep 30, The Danish
newspaper Jyllands-Posten published cartoons of the Prophet
Muhammad. Death threats against the artists soon followed with
protest strikes in Kashmir, condemnation from Muslim leaders
worldwide and even criticism from the UN. The paper refused to
apologize for publishing the drawings, citing freedom of speech, a
right cherished in this northern European country of 5.4 million,
that also refused to prosecute an artist who depicted a crucified
Jesus Christ with an erection. Kurt Westergaard created one of the
cartoons, which featured the Prophet Muhammad with a bomb in his
turban. In 2008 Westergaard offered to sell the cartoon. In 2009
Jytte Klausen authored “The Cartoons That Shook the World."
(AP, 12/9/05)(WSJ, 2/29/08, p.A1)(Econ,
10/31/09, p.97)

2005 Oct 27, In Denmark 4
young Muslims were arrested for helping to supply weapons and
explosives for a planned terror attack in Europe. They helped two
main suspects in Bosnia get hold of weapons and explosives with
the aim of committing a terror act. In 2007 a Danish court
convicted Abdul Basit Abu-Lifa (17) and sentenced him to 7 years
in jail. In 2008 Elias Ibn Hsain was acquitted on charges that he
took part.
(AP, 8/24/06)(AP, 2/16/07)

2006 Jan 26, Saudi Arabia
recalled its ambassador in Denmark to protest a published series
of caricatures of the prophet Muhammad. Protests spread across the
Muslim world for weeks, and dozens of people were killed.
(AP, 1/26/07)

2006 Jan 29, Denmark's PM
said his government could not act against satirical cartoons of
the Prophet Mohammed after Libya closed its embassy in Copenhagen
amid growing Muslim anger over the dispute.
(Reuters, 1/29/06)

2006 Jan 30, The controversy
over Danish caricatures of Prophet Muhammad escalated as gunmen
seized an EU office in Gaza and Muslims appealed for a trade
boycott of Danish products. Denmark called for its citizens in the
Middle East to exercise vigilance. A roadside bomb targeted a
joint Danish-Iraqi military patrol near the southern city of
Basra.
(AP, 1/30/06)

2006 Feb 5, Thousands of
Muslims rampaged in Beirut, setting fire to the Danish Embassy,
burning Danish flags and lobbing stones at a Maronite Catholic
church as violent protests spread over caricatures of the Prophet
Muhammad.
(AP, 2/5/06)

2006 Feb 6, Analysts and
companies said the boycott of Danish goods called by Islamic
countries to protest the publication of Prophet Muhammad
caricatures was costing Danish businesses more than $1 million a
day.
(AP, 2/6/06)

2006 Feb 11, Denmark said it
has temporarily withdrawn its ambassadors from Syria, Iran and
Indonesia because their safety was at risk in the wake of a Danish
newspaper's publication of drawings of the Prophet Muhammad.
(AP, 2/11/06)

2006 Feb 19, Almost five
months after publishing 12 cartoons of the prophet to highlight
what it described as self-censorship, Denmark’s Jyllands-Posten
newspaper printed a full-page apology in a Saudi-owned pan-Arab
newspaper.
(AFP, 2/19/06)

2006 Mar 23, A Danish soldier
was killed by a roadside bomb in southern Iraq. He was the third
Danish soldier to die in the conflict.
(AP, 3/23/06)

2006 Mar 29, A group of 27
Danish Muslim organizations have filed a defamation lawsuit
against the newspaper that first published the caricatures of
Islam's Prophet Muhammad.
(AP, 3/30/06)

2006 Apr 6, Cheese and butter
from the Danish company Arla were back on supermarket shelves in
Saudi Arabia after an Islamic group ended a boycott of the dairy
producer sparked by Denmark's publication of drawings of the
Prophet Muhammad.
(AP, 4/6/06)

2006 Aug 24, A Danish
prosecutor charged four young Muslims with helping to supply
weapons and explosives for a planned terror attack in Europe. The
four men, arrested in Denmark last October 27, helped the two main
suspects in Bosnia get hold of weapons and explosives with the aim
of committing a terror act.
(AP, 8/24/06)

2006 Sep 5, Danish
authorities said they foiled a serious terror plot with the arrest
of nine men accused of preparing explosives for a planned attack
in Denmark. The suspects were Danish citizens between the ages of
18 and 33. Eight of them had immigrant backgrounds. In 2007 a jury
in Copenhagen handed down guilty verdicts to Mohammad Zaher (34),
Ahmad Khaldhadi (22), and Abdallah Andersen (32). Riad Anwer
Daabas (19) was acquitted. Zaher and Khaldhadi, described as the
two most active, were each sentenced to 11 years in prison, while
Andersen was given a four-year sentence.
(AP, 9/5/06)(AP, 11/24/07)

2006 Sep 24, In Copenhagen,
Denmark, youths angered at a court decision to evict squatters
from a downtown building hurled stones, bottles and eggs at police
during a protest. More than 200 were detained.
(AP, 9/25/06)

2006 Oct 4, Professor Eugene
Polzik and his team at the Niels Bohr Institute at Copenhagen
University in Denmark reported a breakthrough in teleportation by
using both light and matter.
(Reuters, 10/4/06)

2006 Dec 16, In Copenhagen,
Denmark, police fired tear gas and detained up to 300 people after
protesters attacked them with cobblestones and fireworks during a
demonstration against the planned eviction of squatters from a
downtown building.
(AP, 12/16/06)

2007 Jan 21, The Danish
container ship Eleonora Maersk, one of the largest ships in the
world, was officially registered.
(www.ships-info.info/mer-eleonora-maersk.htm)(Econ,
11/12/11, p.72)

2007 Feb 1, Ahmed Abu Laban
(60), Denmark's most prominent Muslim leader and a central figure
in last year's uproar over the Prophet Muhammad cartoons, died
from cancer.
(AP, 2/3/07)

2007 Feb 5, A Cold War-era
Soviet submarine that was being towed to Thailand sank off
northwestern Denmark. The Soviet Union built more than 200
Whiskey-class submarines during the Cold War, many of which are
now being offered for sale by private companies.
(AP, 2/6/07)

2007 Feb 21, Denmark’s PM
Rasmussen said that his country will withdraw its 460-member
contingent from southern Iraq by August and transfer security
responsibilities to Iraqi forces.
(AP, 2/21/07)

2007 Mar 1, In Denmark dozens
of people were arrested after angry protesters threw cobblestones
at police when an anti-terror squad started a disputed eviction of
squatters from a building in downtown Copenhagen.
(AP, 3/1/07)

2007 Mar 4, Copenhagen police
arrested dozens of people in a third straight day of unrest
triggered by the eviction of squatters from a disputed youth
center.
(AP, 3/4/07)

2007 Mar 5, In Copenhagen,
Denmark, demolition crews started tearing down a graffiti-sprayed
brick building, prompting tears and cries of protest from youths
whose eviction from the makeshift cultural center led to three
nights of rioting. The Youth House served since 1982 as a popular
cultural center for anarchists, punk rockers and left-wing groups.
The squatters considered it free public housing, but courts
ordered them out after the city sold the building to a Christian
congregation. Ruth Evensen, leader of the small congregation that
bought the Youth House in 2001, said the four-story structure had
to be torn down because it was "a total wreck" and posed a fire
hazard.
(AP, 3/5/07)(Econ, 3/10/07, p.48)

2007 Apr 1, Danish
researchers reported that they have isolated bacterial enzymes
that effectively remove sugar molecules from red blood cells that
provoke an immune reactions. This would allow conversion of the A,
B, and AB blood types into Type O, the universal donor type that
can be given to anyone.
(SFC, 4/2/07, p.A2)

2007 Apr 10, Peter Brixtofte
(57), the free-spending Danish mayor of Hilleroed (1986-2002), was
convicted of abusing his office and sentenced to two years in
prison. He had became hugely popular for offering free vacations
to retirees and computers to school children.
(AP, 4/10/07)

2007 May 15, In Denmark
hundreds of black-clad youths clashed with police in Copenhagen,
barricading streets and setting fire to cars to protest the
demolition of a building in the free-wheeling Christiania
district.
(AP, 5/15/07)

2007 Jun 23, Authorities said
an outbreak of distemper has been killing seal pups off the coast
of Denmark, warning that thousands of seals could die if the
disease spreads to other northern European countries.
(AP, 6/23/07)

2007 Jun 29, Germany and
Denmark agreed to build an 11-mile bridge spanning the waters
between the two nations and cut travel times between Scandinavia
and central Europe.
(AP, 6/29/07)

2007 Jul 27, Victor Frunza
(72), a Romanian anti-communist dissident and writer, died in
Denmark of a heart attack. He was forced to leave Romania in 1980
after writing a letter critical of the communist regime led by
dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. While in Romania, Frunza secretly
wrote a history of communism in the country that was published in
Denmark in 1984. He also wrote essays championing human rights and
published a political magazine.
(AP, 7/30/07)

2007 Aug 1, Denmark, France
and Indonesia offered to contribute to a joint UN-African Union
mission for Darfur, a 26,000-strong force expected to be made up
mostly of peacekeepers from Africa with backup from Asian troops.
Sudan accepted a UN resolution approving a joint African Union-UN
peacekeeping force in Darfur.
(AP, 8/1/07)(AFP, 8/1/07)

2007 Aug 5, The last men of a
Danish battalion of 450 ground troops left Iraq.
(AFP, 8/7/07)

2007 Aug 10, Denmark was
reported to be planning a monthlong expedition, to begin Aug 12,
to seek evidence that the Lomonosov Ridge, a 1,240-mile underwater
mountain range, is attached to the Danish territory of Greenland,
making it a geological extension of the Arctic island.
(AP, 8/10/07)

2007 Aug 22, Denmark's
government said Somali pirates released the crew of a hijacked
Danish cargo ship after receiving a ransom payment.
(AP, 8/22/07)

2007 Sep 2, In Copenhagen,
Denmark, a protest by hundreds of youth activists turned violent,
with protesters setting fire to street barricades and cars and
smashing shop windows. Officers used tear gas to disperse the
crowd. The unrest started after a demonstration the previous day
commemorating the Youth House, a makeshift cultural center for the
city's anarchists and disaffected youth that was demolished in
March.
(AP, 9/2/07)

2007 Sep 26, Transparency
International's 2007 index ranked Myanmar and Somalia as the most
corrupt nations. Both received the lowest score of 1.4 out of 10.
Denmark, Finland and New Zealand were ranked the least corrupt,
each scoring 9.4.
(AP, 9/26/07)

2007 Oct 5, Chinese medical
officials agreed not to transplant organs from prisoners or others
in custody, except into members of their immediate families. The
agreement was reached at a meeting of the World Medical
Association in Copenhagen.
(AP, 10/6/07)

2007 Nov 13, Voting began in
Denmark's national election, with polls showing that the
center-right government needs a new ally to stay in power despite
a strong economy and low unemployment. Danes re-elected the
governing coalition to a third term, endorsing its economic and
tough immigration policies. Fogh Rasmussen’s blue block won 90
seats, just enough for a majority. The New Alliance Party of Naser
Khader won just 5 seats. Pia Kjaersgaard’s far-right Danish
People’s party won 25 seats.
(AP, 11/13/07)(Econ, 11/17/07, p.59)

2007 Nov 29, In Afghanistan 2
Danish soldiers were killed in a gunbattle with the Taliban. They
were part of a Danish reconnaissance unit that came under fire in
Gereshk Valley in Helmand Province. Denmark has some 600 troops in
Helmand province that are part of NATO's 40,000-member force in
Afghanistan.
(AP, 11/30/07)

2008 Feb 12, Danish police
said they have arrested three people suspected of plotting to kill
one of the 12 cartoonists behind the Prophet Muhammad drawings
that sparked a deadly uproar in the Muslim world two years ago.
(AP, 2/12/08)

2007 Global wind power
amounted to about 1,200 megawatts with Denmark accounting for
about a third and Britain in 2nd place with 400 megawatts.
(WSJ, 11/29/07, p.B2)

2008 Feb 15, In northern
Copenhagen gangs of rioters set fire to cars and garbage trucks,
the sixth night of rioting and vandalism that has spread from the
capital to other Danish cities.
(Reuters, 2/16/08)

2008 Mar 31, A clash in
southern Afghanistan killed a Danish soldier and wounded two
others. A separate attack on a NATO patrol killed two British
troops. an airstrike killed three men irrigating land close to a
road in Kandahar province. The men may have been mistaken for
militants planting roadside bombs. In Helmand province police
arrested Mullah Naqibullah, a senior Taliban commander who has
escaped twice from Afghan prisons. Naqibullah was nabbed during a
clash that left three insurgents dead.
(AP, 3/31/08)(AP, 4/1/08)

2008 Jun 2, In Pakistan a
huge car bomb exploded outside the Danish Embassy in Islamabad,
killing at least six people and wounding dozens more. Danish
security said that al-Qaida or an al-Qaida-related group likely
was behind the attack.
(AP, 6/2/08)

2008 Jul 25, In southern
Afghanistan a Danish soldier died in a roadside bomb attack. The
death brings the number of Danish troops killed in Afghanistan
since 2001 to 15. 3 Taliban militants died in a fight with police
in the Gereshk district of Helmand province.
(AP, 7/25/08)

2008 Aug 25, The Danish
central bank said it has taken over Roskilde Bank, the nation's
10th largest bank. The 124-year-old institution had been
struggling amid global financial turmoil and mounting losses on
mortgage loans as housing prices fell in Denmark.
(AP, 8/25/08)

2008 Oct 6, European
governments struggled to find a coordinated approach to the crisis
sweeping financial markets, as Denmark became the latest country
to guarantee bank deposits, putting more pressure on Britain and
other countries to follow.
(AP, 10/6/08)

2008 Oct 21, In Denmark
Hammad Khuershid, a Danish citizen of Pakistani origin, and
Abdoulghani Tokhi, an Afghan, were convicted of preparing a
terrorist attack. They were secretly filmed mixing the type of
explosive used in the 2005 London transit bombing. They were
arrested in the Copenhagen area in September 2007. Khuershid and
Tokhi were sentenced to 12 and seven years in prison,
respectively.
(AP, 10/21/08)

2008 Nov 7, Pirates near
Somalia hijacked a Danish cargo ship with 13 crew members, which
consisted of Russians and Ukrainians. The CEC Future was
released on January 16 following a ransom payment by Clipper
Projects.
(AP, 11/8/08)(AP, 1/16/09)

2008 Dec 4, The Danish navy
intercepted and sunk a suspected pirate vessel drifting off
Somalia. 7 men were handed over to authorities in Yemen but were
not immediately suspected of any crime.
(AP, 12/5/08)
2008 Dec 4, In Afghanistan 2
Danish soldiers serving with NATO's force were killed in southern
Helmand province. The governor of Afghanistan's key southern
Kandahar province said he was sacked by the central government and
complained that powerful people in his region had been sabotaging
his work. US-led troops killed four militants in Helmand province,
after the insurgents fired on a joint US-Afghan patrol.
(AFP, 12/4/08)(AP, 12/4/08)(AP, 12/5/08)

2008 Dec 6, In Denmark
"Gomorra," a movie by Italian director Matteo Garrone about
Naples' criminal underworld, won the best film prize at the 21st
annual European Film Awards.
(AP, 12/6/08)

2008 Dec 11, As Greece
suffered through its sixth day of violence, there were troubling
signs of unrest spreading across Europe. Angry youths smashed shop
windows, attacked banks and hurled bottles at police in small but
violent protests in Spain and Denmark, while cars were set alight
outside a consulate in France.
(AP, 12/11/08)

2008 Dec 16, The central
banks of Sweden and Denmark came to the aid of Latvia with
currency swap agreements. This enabled the Bank of Latvia, to
borrow as much as €500 million.
(WSJ, 12/17/08, p.C2)
2008 Dec 16, Stein Bagger,
Danish business executive, was sent back to Denmark from the US,
where he had surrendered following the exposure of an estimated
$185 swindle in his firm, IT Factory.
(WSJ, 12/17/08, p.A1)

2008 Dec 19, Three Danish
soldiers and one from the Netherlands were killed in separate
incidents in Afghanistan, losing their lives just as the
commitment of some countries to the fight in Afghanistan begins to
wane.
(AP, 12/19/08)

2008 Dec 31, In Denmark a
gunman shot and wounded two Israelis working at the Rosengaard
mall in Odense. Police son arrested a 27-year-old Dane born in
Lebanon of Palestinian parents.
(AP, 1/1/09)(AP, 1/2/09)

2009 Feb 23, Denmark seized
control of Fionia Bank A/S by injecting about $172 million in a
deal that will take away shareholder control and split the bank
into two parts until a sale can be realized. The bank was hit by
mounting losses on bad loans to property developers.
(WSJ, 2/24/09, p.C2)

2009 May 26, In Denmark
business leaders attending the World Business Summit on Climate
Change urged governments to order steep and mandatory cuts in
greenhouse gases, favoring a cap-and-trade system instead of a tax
to set a market price for carbon waste.
(AP, 5/26/09)
2009 May 26, A Danish court
ruled that residents of Copenhagen's counterculture Christiania
neighborhood have no right to use the former navy base they took
over in 1971. The residents planned to appeal.
(AP, 5/26/09)

2009 Jun 17, In southern
Afghanistan 3 Danish soldiers were when a bomb exploded as their
vehicle passed down Highway 1 heading toward the town of Barakhzai
in Helmand province.
(AFP, 6/17/09)

2009 Jun 21, In China the
Danish-Swedish comedy “Original," about mental illness, won the
best picture at the 12th Shanghai International Film Festival. It
also took the best actor award for lead Sverrir Gudnason.
(AFP, 6/22/09)

2009 Aug 3, Anders Fogh
Rasmussen, a former Danish prime minister, took office as NATO's
new secretary-general. He said his top priorities would be guiding
the war in Afghanistan to a successful conclusion, repairing ties
with Russia, and expanding NATO's partnership with moderate
nations in North Africa and the Middle East.
(AP, 8/3/09)

2009 Aug 28, Denmark
announced the 5 winners of its biennial Index design awards. The
winners included: Kiva.org, of the SF Bay Area for bringing money
and intellectual capital to the working poor; Better Place, of the
SF Bay Area for a clean energy system for all-electric cars; the
Freeplay fetal heart rate monitor; Philip Design for its
India-team designed safe kitchen stove for one-room homes; and
Rotterdam-based Pig 05049 for its list of 185 good and bad
products made from a single pig.
(SFC, 8/29/09, p.E1)

2009 Sep 21, A Danish court
rejected the military's request to stop a book by a former special
forces soldier from being published. Denmark's armed forces had
asked the Bailiff's Court in Copenhagen to ban Thomas Rathsack's
book, "Ranger: At War With the Elite," for national security
reasons. It describes operations that he took part in as a member
of an army ranger unit in Afghanistan and Iraq.
(AP, 9/21/09)

2009 Sep 24, In Vietnam 9
North Koreans took refuge in Denmark's embassy in Hanoi seeking
political asylum and passage to Seoul. On Oct 20 they left the
mission and were on their way to South Korea.
(Reuters, 10/20/09)(SFC, 9/25/09, p.A2)

2009 Oct 2, In Denmark the
IOC opened a meeting hearing the cases led by government leaders
and kings to win the right to stage the 2016 Olympic Games. US
Pres. Obama spoke for Chicago, Japan's new PM Yukio Hatoyama spoke
for Tokyo, Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva spoke for
Rio de Janeiro, and Spain's King Juan Carlos and PM Jose Luis
Rodriguez Zapatero spoke for Spain. Brazil won the bid.
(AFP, 10/2/09)(AP, 10/3/09)
2009 Oct 2, President Barack
Obama, while in Copenhagen, met with General Stanley McChrystal,
the top commander of US and NATO troops in Afghanistan, for the
first time since McChrystal presented a grim assessment of the war
effort and requesting more troops.
(Reuters, 10/2/09)

2009 Oct 23, In southern
Afghanistan 2 US soldiers were killed by a home-made bomb. A
Danish soldier lost his life in clashes with Taliban-led
insurgents in the same region.
(AFP, 10/24/09)

2009 Dec 3, In Somalia a male
suicide bomber dressed as a woman attacked a university graduation
ceremony in a small part of Mogadishu still under government
control, killing 24 people, including three Cabinet ministers and
three journalists. The president of Benadir University said 43
students were taking part in the graduation ceremony at the Shamo
Hotel. The bomber was later reported to be a Danish citizen of
Somali descent.
(AP, 12/3/09)(AP, 12/4/09)(AP, 12/10/09)

2009 Dec 7, In Denmark the
largest and most important UN climate change conference in history
opened in Copenhagen, with organizers warning diplomats from 192
nations that this could be the last best chance for a deal to
protect the world from calamitous global warming. This was the
15th conference of the parties to the 1992 UNFCCC in Rio de
Janeiro.
(AP, 12/7/09)(Econ, 12/5/09, SR p.3)

2009 Dec 11, EU leaders
agreed to commit euro2.4 billion ($3.6 billion) a year until 2012
to help poorer countries combat global warming, as they sought to
rescue their image as climate change innovators and bolster the
talks in Copenhagen. A new draft agreement at the climate talks
pulled together the main elements of a global pact but left gaping
holes on financing and cutting greenhouse gas emissions for world
leaders to fill in next week.
(AP, 12/11/09)

2009 Dec 12, In Denmark
violence broke out in Copenhagen as tens of thousands took to the
streets to demand tough measures on climate change, with
demonstrators around the world rallying for action instead of
words.
(AFP, 12/12/09)

2009 Dec 14, In Denmark
China, India and other developing nations boycotted UN climate
talks, bringing negotiations to a halt with their demand that rich
countries discuss much deeper cuts in their greenhouse gas
emissions. Representatives from 135 developing countries said they
refused to participate in any formal working groups at the
192-nation summit until the issue was resolved. African nations
agreed to resume UN climate talks in Copenhagen after a half-day
suspension, accusing rich countries of trying to kill the existing
Kyoto Protocol.
(AP, 12/14/09)(Reuters, 12/14/09)

2009 Dec 16, In Denmark
police fired pepper spray and beat protesters with batons outside
the UN climate conference, as disputes inside left major issues
unresolved just two days before world leaders hope to sign a
historic agreement to fight global warming.
(AP, 12/16/09)

2009 Dec 17, In Copenhagen US
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sought to put new life
into flagging UN climate talks by announcing the US would join
others in raising $100 billion a year by 2020 to help poorer
nations cope with global warming.
(AP, 12/17/09)

2009 Dec 19, In Denmark the
13-day UN climate conference ended. It narrowly escaped collapse
by agreeing to recognize a political accord brokered by President
Barack Obama with China and other emerging powers. The US
supported the idea that, by 2020, $100 billion should be flowing
from the north to the south every year to pay for emissions
reduction and climate adaptation. A small group of nations blocked
the Copenhagen Accord, because it lacked specific targets for
reducing carbon emissions. After a break, the conference president
gaveled the decision to "take note" of the agreement instead of
formally approving it. Experts said that clears the way for the
accord to become operational in practice even though it has not
been formally approved by the conference. Several developing
countries, including Bolivia, Cuba, Sudan and Venezuela, bitterly
protested the deal and said it is unacceptable because it lacks
specific targets for reducing carbon emissions.
(AP, 12/19/09)(SSFC, 12/20/09, p.A1)(Econ,
10/30/10, p.79)

2010 Jan 1, In Denmark
Muhudiin Mohamed Geele (29), a Somali man armed with an axe and
suspected of links with al Qaeda, broke into the home of Kurt
Westergaard (74), a Danish cartoonist, whose drawings of the
Prophet Mohammad caused global Muslim outrage. The attacker, who
was shot and wounded by police, was charged the next day with two
counts of attempted murder. On Feb 3, 2011, Geele was convicted of
terrorism. The next day he was sentenced to 9 years in prison to
be followed by permanent expulsion.
(Reuters, 1/2/10)(AP, 2/3/11)(Reuters, 2/4/11)

2010 Jan 28, Denmark's
government said that face-covering Muslim veils don't belong in
Danish society but no ban is needed because their use can be
limited under existing rules.
(AP, 1/28/10)

2010 Feb 5, Danish special
forces disrupted the takeover by Somali pirates of the cargo ship
Ariella in the Gulf of Aden. A frogmen unit scaled the sides of
the ship using grappling hooks, secured the bridge, released the
crew and then launched an hours-long search for a pirate the crew
had seen.
(AP, 2/5/10)

2010 Feb 23, Denmark's PM
Lars Loekke Rasmussen (45) announced a major government shake-up,
changing more than a dozen Cabinet posts including the ministers
of defense, justice and foreign affairs to build his own team 10
months after taking office.
(AP, 2/23/10)

2010 Feb 26, The Danish daily
Politiken newspaper apologized for offending Muslims by reprinting
a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad with a bomb-shaped turban,
rekindling heated debate about the limits of freedom of speech.
(AP, 2/26/10)

2010 Apr 8, In Denmark scores
of Carlsberg brewery workers walked off the job after the company
tightened rules on workplace drinking. A new policy only allowed
them to drink beer during lunch in the canteen.
(SFC, 4/9/10, p.A2)

2010 May 27, Danish container
shipping and oil group A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S said it has sold its
British supermarket chain Netto to Wal-Mart subsidiary Asda Stores
Ltd. for 778 million pounds ($1.1 billion).
(AP, 5/27/10)

2010 Jul 8, In Norway 2
suspected al-Qaida members were arrested for what Norwegian and US
officials said was a terrorist plot linked to similar plans to
bomb New York's subway and blow up a shopping mall in England. A
3rd suspect was arrested in Germany. Authorities later said the
ringleader of the plot is Mikael Davud (39), an Uighur who came to
Norway in 1999 as part of a UN refugee program and then became a
Norwegian citizen eight years later. Davud was arrested along with
suspected accomplices Shawan Sadek Saeed Bujak Bujak, an Iraqi
Kurd (37), and Uzbek national, David Jakobsen (31). Norwegian and
Danish police later said the 3 were likely planning an attack
against a Danish newspaper that caricatured the Prophet Muhammad.
(AP, 7/8/10)(AP, 8/29/10)(AP, 9/28/10)

2010 Sep 8, German Chancellor
Angela Merkel praised the bravery of illustrator Kurt Westergaard
(75), a Danish cartoonist who caricatured the Prophet Muhammad, at
an award ceremony honoring his achievements for freedom of speech.
(AP, 9/9/10)

2010 Sep 10, Danish police
surrounded a suspect in Orsted Park near the Hotel Jorgensen
following a small explosion in a bathroom at the hotel. A bomb
squad removed a bag wrapped around his waist with remote
controlled cutting pliers. The man was later identified as Lors
Doukayev, a one-legged Chechen-born boxer living in Belgium. On
May 3, 2011, Doukayev was charged with terrorism for allegedly
preparing a letter bomb that had likely been intended for a
newspaper known for publishing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
On May 30, 2011, Doukayev was convicted of attempted terrorism.
The next day he was sentenced to 12 years.
(Reuters, 9/12/10)(AP, 9/15/10)(AP, 5/3/11)(AP,
5/30/11)(Reuters, 5/31/11)

2010 Sep 20, Saudi Arabia’s
Shura Council voted 62 to 56 against a memorandum of understanding
on bilateral consultations with Denmark after several members
expressed unhappiness over the publication of cartoons of the
Prophet Mohammed in a Danish newspaper.
(AFP, 9/21/10)

2010 Sep 30, In Denmark
Flemming Rose's "The Tyranny of Silence," a book on the crisis
sparked by a Danish newspaper's publication of cartoons of the
Prophet Mohammed five years ago, hit stores in amid concerns over
a backlash from the Muslim world.
(AFP, 9/30/10)

2010 Oct 9, A 650-foot
Lithuanian-flagged ferry was ablaze in the Baltic Sea after an
explosion on the upper deck. Firefighting ships sprayed the vessel
with water to keep it from breaking apart and spilling some 170
tons of fuel. 249 people aboard were rescued by six ships that
moved in to help after the explosion on the Lisco Gloria around
midnight. A four-person team was lowered to the ferry by
helicopter and managed to anchor the vessel off the southern tip
of the Danish island Langeland to keep it from drifting farther
ashore.
(AP, 10/9/10)

2010 Oct 26, An annual report
by Transparency Int’l. marked Somalia as the most corrupt county
in the world, followed by Afghanistan, Myanmar and Iraq. Denmark,
New Zealand and Singapore tied as the world’s least corrupt
nations. The US declined to 22nd from 19th last year.
(SFC, 10/27/10, p.A2)

2010 Dec 23, It was reported
that the first pill designed to curb a person’s urge to have more
than a few drinks of alcohol was undergoing tests in Europe. The
drug (nalmafene) was developed by H. Lundbeck A/S in Valby,
Denmark.
(SFC, 12/23/10, p.A2)

2010 Dec 29, In Denmark 4 men
planning to shoot as many people as possible in a building housing
the newsroom of a paper that published cartoons of the Prophet
Muhammad were arrested in an operation that halted an imminent
attack. The 4 were Swedish residents, a Tunisian (44), a
Lebanese-born man (29), an Iraqi asylum seeker, and a 30-year-old
whose national origin was not released. Police in Stockholm
arrested a Swedish citizen of Tunisian origin, suspected of being
linked to the plot. Denmark freed the Iraqi suspect the next day
due to an apparent lack of evidence. The trial of Munir Awad, Omar
Abdalla Aboelazm, Mounir Ben Mohamed Dhahri and Sabhi Ben Mohamed
Zalouti opened on April 13, 2012.
(AP, 12/29/10)(AP, 12/30/10)(AP, 4/13/12)

2011 Jan 12, A Danish cargo
ship, the M/V Leopard, came under fire from pirates approaching in
two skiffs. Since then, there's been no contact with the crew,
four Filipinos and two Danes. All were released 838 days later. In
2016 a Danish court ordered the tabloid Ekstra Bladet to pay
300,000 kroner ($46,000) each in damages to two of the seamen for
violating the privacy of Eddy Lopez and Soeren Lyngbjoern by
reporting about them during their captivity.
(AP, 1/14/11)(AP, 5/13/16)

2011 Jan 28, A Danish warship
rescued two men who escaped from pirates off the coast of East
Africa. The men were among several crew members who attempted to
shake their captors two days after their ship, the MV Beluga
Nomination, was hijacked.
(AP, 1/28/11)

2011 Feb 9, Danish police
arrested a 44-year-old man after he allegedly shot and killed his
three children and attempted to commit suicide.
(AP, 2/9/11)

2011 Feb 18, The Danish
Supreme Court gave the government the green light to take control
of Christiania, a largely self-governing Copenhagen neighborhood
that was occupied by hippies four decades ago.
(AP, 2/18/11)

2011 Feb 24, Somali pirates
captured a sailboat carrying Danish couple Jan Quist Johansen his
wife Birgit Marie and three children (12-16), along with two adult
crew members, also Danes. All seven were released on September 6.
(AP, 3/1/11)(AP, 9/7/11)

2011 Mar 10, Forces from
Somalia’s northern region of Puntland failed in a rescue attempt
of a Danish family and 2 crew members. 5 soldiers were killed.
(SFC, 3/12/11, p.A2)

2011 Mar 19, Six Danish F-16
fighter jets landed at the US air base in Sigonella, Sicily, and a
half-dozen US aircraft arrived elsewhere as the military buildup
mounted in Italy for possible action against Libya.
(AP, 3/19/11)

2011 Apr 14, Denmark's
foreign minister said she will urge US states such as Texas and
Ohio to stop using a drug produced by a Danish company in lethal
injections. Lene Espersen said she cannot take direct action
against the company that produces pentobarbital because the drug
is not exported from Denmark. It is produced by a plant in Kansas
that is owned by Denmark's Lundbeck A/S. Britain announced it was
banning the export of three such drugs to the United States.
(AP, 4/14/11)

2011 Apr 30, In Denmark the
900 residents of the Christiania hippie enclave in Copenhagen
announced they had agreed in principle to a deal that will allow
them to collectively buy the former naval base they first occupied
four decades ago.
(AP, 4/30/11)

2011 Jun, A Danish convicted
Harry Larsen of a number of abuses, including using a baseball bat
and metal bars to beat some of his family's nine children, and
raping two of its teenage daughters. In its sentence, that court
said he should be sent to a mental health facility. On Dec 15 an
appeals court overturned the ruling and sentenced him to 11 years
in prison.
(AP, 12/15/11)

2011 Jul 1, Denmark approved
a decision to re-establish permanent customs checkpoints at its
borders, removing the last hurdle to a plan aimed at stopping
crime and illegal immigration but which has been strongly
criticized in Europe as violating visa-free travel rules.
(AP, 7/1/11)
2011 Jul 1, Danish
pharmaceutical company Lundbeck Inc. said it will demand that US
distributors sign an agreement stating that they will not make the
sedative pentobarbital available for prisons using it for lethal
injections.
(SFC, 7/2/11, p.A2)

2011 Aug 30, In Denmark a man
was shot dead and two others are injured after a shooting outside
a Copenhagen mosque following prayers to mark the end of the
Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.
(AP, 8/30/11)

2011 Sep 15, Danish voters
appeared set to elect their first female prime minister and end 10
years of pro-market reforms and a hardening of immigration laws.
Polls predicted a majority in the 179-seat Parliament for the
left-leaning opposition led by Social Democratic leader Helle
Thorning-Schmidt.
(AP, 9/15/11)

2011 Sep 29, A Danish court
sentenced 15 motorbike gang members to jail for six murder
attempts on rival gang members. Copenhagen's city court ruled
earlier this month that members of the Hells Angels and their
support group, AK81, were guilty of a series of shootings in the
Danish capital in 2009.
(AP, 9/29/11)

2011 Oct 1, Denmark imposed a
“fat tax" on foods such as butter and oil as a way to curb
unhealthy eating habits. The tariff on saturated fats was
abolished in November 2012.
(SFC, 10/3/11, p.A2)(Econ, 11/17/12, p.52)

2011 Dec 16, Europol said
police have arrested 112 people in 22 countries after a yearlong
investigation into child pornography, warning that technology is
making combating the spread of child abuse images ever more
difficult. The investigation, code named "Operation Icarus," was
carried out under the leadership of Danish police, due to Danish
expertise in analyzing the peer-to-peer networks that were used to
share files.
(AP, 12/16/11)

2011 Dec 19, In Denmark the
Copenhagen City Court ruled that Marcel Lychau Hansen had
strangled 73-year-old Edith Louise Andrup in 1987 and 40-year-old
Lene Buchardt Rasmussen three years later. The court also found
him guilty of raping three teenagers and a 23-year-old woman in
1995 and two women in 2005 and 2010, respectively.
(AP, 12/19/11)

2012 Jan 3, The US Justice
Dept. said Maersk, a Danish shipping company, will pay $31.9
million for overcharging the US government for shipments to US
troops in Afghanistan and Iraq for several years.
(SFC, 1/4/12, p.D1)

2012 Jan 7, The Danish navy
captured a suspect pirate mothership off the Horn of Africa. They
arrested 25 suspected pirates and freed 14 people from Iran and
Pakistan.
(AP, 1/8/12)

2012 Feb 27, Off Somalia's
coast, 2 hostages were killed as the Danish warship HDMS Absalon
intercepted a cargo vessel that had been hijacked by pirates. 17
suspected pirates were found along with 18 hostages. In July
Danish military prosecutors say a Danish soldier "very likely"
caused the death of the two hostages, but that the soldier would
not be prosecuted since anti-pirate operations are inherently
fraught with deadly risks.
(AP, 2/28/12)(AP, 7/3/12)

2012 Mar 2, Danish
prosecutors charged four people with terrorism for allegedly
planning a shooting attack on a newspaper that had printed
cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. The 4 men from Sweden were
arrested on Dec 29, 2010.
(AP, 12/30/10)(AP, 3/2/12)

2012 Mar 16, In Denmark a
psychiatric patient (47) stabbed a doctor and two nurses at the at
Odense University Hospital, then surrendered after a 10-hour
standoff with police. The doctor and one of the nurses were in
critical condition.
(AP, 3/16/12)

2012 Apr 16, In Denmark
Arnold Maersk McKinney Moeller (98), the country’s richest man,
died. He turned two small shipping companies that his father had
created into a global giant with 108,000 workers across 130
countries.
(SFC, 4/17/12, p.C4)

2012 Apr 27, Denmark's
intelligence service said 3 men have been arrested in Copenhagen
on suspicion of plotting a terror attack after police found them
with automatic weapons and ammunition.
(AP, 4/27/12)

2012 May 28, Two Danish
brothers originally from Somalia were arrested on suspicion of
plotting a terror attack. The men were charged with receiving
training with the aim of committing an act of terror, in what were
the first known terror-trained suspects in Denmark.
(AP, 5/29/12)

2012 Jun 4, In Denmark the
Glostrup City Court handed down prison sentences to Mounir Ben
Mohamed Dhahri, Munir Awad, Omar Abdalla Aboelazm, and Sabhi Ben
Mohamed Zalouti. The 4 men, arrested on Dec 29 2010, had planned a
shooting spree at the office of a Danish newspaper that published
cartoons of the prophet Muhammed were found guilty of terrorism
and sentenced each to 12 years in prison.
(AP, 6/4/12)

2012 Jun 7, Denmark's
Parliament approved a law allowing same-sex couples to get married
in formal church weddings, effective June 15, instead of the short
blessing ceremonies that the state's Lutheran Church currently
offers.
(AP, 6/7/12)

2012 Jun 26, Denmark police
said Attan Shansonga, a former Zambian ambassador to the United
States wanted in his home country on charges of corruption, has
been arrested. He was arrested by the Zambian Anti-Corruption
Commission (ACC) in 2002 and charged with the theft of public
funds, but fled for Britain in 2004.
(AFP, 6/26/12)

2012 Jun, In Mozambique
Danish biotech giant Novozymes led a scheme under the Cleanstar
name whereby Mozambican farmers sell surplus cassava that is
converted to ethanol at a new facility near the central port city
of Beira. The fuel is then shipped to Maputo, where Cleanstar
sells new gas operated stoves. Some 200 stoves were sold in the
first month and another 3,000 were on order.
(AFP, 6/9/12)

2012 Jul 5, In Panama the
International Whaling Commission rejected a request from Denmark
for a whaling quota for indigenous groups in Greenland. Two days
earlier it approved the renewal of bowhead whale quotas for
indigenous subsistence whaling in Alaska and Russia and for St.
Vincent and the Grenadines in the Caribbean. The United States
says it doesn't support a South Korean plan to restart whale
hunting for purportedly scientific purposes.
(AP, 7/6/12)

2012 In northern Denmark
Michael Stokbro Larsen (16) found Viking-era coins and other items
with a metal detector in a field. The coins displayed a
distinctive cross motif attributed to Norse King Harald Bluetooth,
who is believed to have brought Christianity to Norway and
Denmark.
(AP, 5/16/13)

2013 Jan 3, Coalition
military officials in Afghanistan said an elite Danish soldier was
killed overnight by an explosive device.
(AP, 1/3/13)

2013 Apr 10, A Danish man
(31) was acquitted of molesting two 17-year-old girls after he was
found to suffer from a rare sleep disorder known as "sexsomnia."
(AP, 4/12/13)

2013 Apr 28, A fire blazed
through The Museum of Danish Resistance in Copenhagen, destroying
large parts of the building but most of the collection was saved.
(AP, 4/28/13)

2013 Jun 18, Vincent Clerc of
the Copenhagen-based company's shipping unit said MSC
Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A. and CMA CGM of France, the
world's three biggest shipping container operators, will form the
P3 alliance with Maersk Line.
(AP, 6/18/13)

2013 Nov 8, Denmark said it
would provide transport and security for the international effort
to destroy Syria's arsenal of chemical weapons, after receiving a
request from the UN.
(AFP, 11/8/13)

2013 Dec 6, The death toll
from hurricane-force Storm Xaver sweeping across northern Europe
rose to 6 when high winds hurled a tree limb against a car,
killing 3 people in Poland. Britain and Denmark had already
reported 3 deaths. Thousands of people in Britain faced a second
day of flooding as the country confronted its worst tidal surge in
60 years after Xaver roared across northern Europe.
(Reuters, 12/6/13)(AP, 12/6/13)

2013 Dec 27, Danish drugmaker
Lundbeck said it has received marketing authorization from the
European Commission for its antidepressant Brintellix following
approval in the United States in September.
(Reuters, 12/27/13)

2013 Dec 30, Disarmament
teams returned Scandinavian escort vessels to port as they
accepted an end-of-year deadline for the removal of Syrian
chemical weapons could no longer be met. Norway and Denmark were
providing ships to transfer the the chemical weapons to the Cape
Ray, an American-owned ship fitted with equipment to break down
lethal chemical agents to an industrial toxic waste.
(AFP, 12/31/13)(Econ, 12/14/13, p.58)

2014 Jan 14, In India a
Danish tourist (51) was gang-raped, robbed and beaten in New Delhi
after she got lost and approached a group of men for directions
back to her hotel near Connaught Place. Nine attackers took her to
a secluded spot, robbed her and raped her repeatedly at
knifepoint. On June 10, 2016, five men were sentenced to life in
prison for the attack. One of the accused men died during trial in
February. Three who were younger than 18 at the time of the attack
were handed to the Juvenile Justice Board to remain in custody
until they are 18 and reformed.
(AP, 1/15/14)(AP, 6/10/16)

2014 Jan 30, A small
socialist party quit Denmark's coalition government amid discord
over plans to sell a stake in state-controlled Dong Energy to
Goldman Sachs and other investors.
(AP, 1/30/14)

2014 Feb 9, Danish director
Lars von Trier brought an extra-long version of his "Nymphomaniac
Volume I" to the Berlin International Film Festival, a cut that
increases to nearly 2½ hours the first installment of the two-part
drama about a woman's sexual life from girlhood to age 50.
(AP, 2/9/14)
2014 Feb 9, Gabriel Axel
(b.1918), the first Dane to win an Oscar for best foreign film
with "Babette's Feast" (1987) which he directed, died.
(AP, 2/10/14)

2014 Feb 27, Uganda shrugged
off foreign aid cuts and int’l criticism of its tough new anti-gay
law, saying it could do without Western aid. Denmark, Norway and
the Netherlands cut aid over Uganda’s anti-gay law.
(AFP, 2/27/14)(SFC, 2/28/14, p.A4)

2014 Aug 12, Danish officials
said a listeria outbreak caused by contaminated sausages may have
killed 10 people during the past few months. A small meat producer
in Copenhagen was closed down Aug 11.
(AP, 8/12/14)

2014 Sep 5, In central
Denmark at least 3 people were killed and fourth person was
missing after a small private helicopter crashed into the sea.
(AP, 9/6/14)

2014 Sep 26, Danish PM Helle
Thorning-Schmidt said her government would send four operational
planes and three reserve jets along with 250 pilots and support
staff in the fight against the Islamic State group in Iraq. The
deployment will last for 12 months.
(AP, 9/26/14)

2014 Nov 13, Eight northern
European nations (Britain, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia,
Lithuania, Norway, Sweden) agreed to step up cooperation to
counter an increase in Moscow's military activity that has
included a tripling of NATO intercepts of Russian jets this year.
(Reuters, 11/13/14)

2014 Dec 15, Denmark claimed
ownership of around 900,000 square km of the continental shelf in
the Arctic Ocean north of Greenland by filing documents to United
Nations.
(Reuters, 12/15/14)

2015 Jan 6, A Danish court
sentenced seven men to prison for dealing hashish at Copenhagen's
famed hippie enclave of Christiania, where the drug is openly
smoked.
(AP, 1/6/15)

2015 Jan 15, The Danish
government said it is allocating 12.5 million kroner ($2 million)
to help the victims of the Boko Haram extremist group in Nigeria.
(AP, 1/15/15)

2015 Jan 27, Denmark said it
has earmarked 60.9 million kroner ($9.2 million) over the next
three years for programs to de-radicalize Islamic extremists,
including those who have fought with jihadi groups in Syria and
Iraq.
(AP, 1/27/15)

2015 Jan 28, In Denmark
commuters in Copenhagen faced widespread disruptions on the train
network caused by the third theft in a week of copper cables from
the tracks.
(Reuters, 1/28/15)

2015 Feb 15, In Denmark
security guard Dan Uzan (27) was shot in the head and killed near
Copenhagen's main synagogue in the city center. Two policemen were
also wounded in the shooting at around 1:00 am this morning.
Police said they believe a man shot dead by officers at Noerrebro
station was the sole perpetrator of the two fatal attacks in the
last 24 hours in the capital. Omar Abdel Hamid El-Hussein (22) was
later identified as the gunman.
(AFP, 2/15/15)(SFC, 2/16/15, p.A2)(AP, 2/17/15)

2015 Feb 16, A Danish court
jailed two suspected accomplices of the slain gunman behind the
recent deadly attacks in Copenhagen while PM Helle
Thorning-Schmidt said there were no signs of links to a wider
terror network.
(AP, 2/16/15)

2015 Feb 27, Scandinavian
Airlines canceled some 60 flights out of Copenhagen after members
of a Danish cabin crew union walked out to protest the carrier's
plan to move 147 employees to a domestic airline that SAS acquired
last year. 30 more flights were canceled the next day.
(AP, 2/28/15)

2015 Mar 2, Scandinavian
Airlines said some 50 flights have been canceled to and from
Denmark after members of a Danish cabin crew union walked out to
protest the carrier's plan to transfer employees to a domestic
airline acquired by SAS.
(AP, 3/2/15)

2015 Mar 4, Thousands of
passengers were stranded in Denmark, Norway and Sweden as a strike
by pilots of Norwegian Air Shuttle continued for a fifth day.
(AP, 3/4/15)

2015 Mar 20, In Denmark two
men suspected of helping the gunman who killed two people in
attacks in Copenhagen last Feb 15 were jailed.
(AP, 3/20/15)

2015 May 8, In Denmark four
city buses were destroyed in a pre-dawn fire and a fifth was
vandalized with anti-Israel graffiti at a bus depot in Copenhagen.
(AP, 5/8/15)

2015 Jun 18, Danes voted in a
cliff-hanger election in which an opposition center-right alliance
sought to oust PM Helle Thorning-Schmidt after she gambled an
economic revival would secure her a new term. A bloc led by Loekke
Rasmussen, a former prime minister, secured the 90 seats necessary
for a majority in Parliament. The Danish People's Party that wants
to limit the European Union's influence over the country, made
large gains and overtook Lars Loekke Rasmussen's Liberal Party as
Denmark's second largest party. Helle Thorning-Schmidt presented
her resignation to Queen Margrethe at the royal palace the next
day.
(Reuters, 6/18/15)(AP, 6/19/15)(SFC, 6/19/15,
p.A4)

2015 Jul 16, The United
States, Russia and other Arctic nations signed an agreement to bar
their fishing fleets from fast-thawing seas around the North Pole.
The accord was also signed in Oslo by the ambassadors of Canada,
Norway and Denmark.
(Reuters, 7/16/15)

2015 Sep 2, In Kazakhstan the
first Dane in space accompanied by 26 custom-made figurines from
Danish toymaker Lego blasted off as part of a three-man team on an
unusually long two-day mission to the International Space Station.
(AFP, 9/2/15)

2015 Sep 9, All train
services were halted between Germany and Denmark after Danish
police stopped hundreds of migrants arriving by train across the
border.
(AP, 9/9/15)

2015 Sep 10, Denmark said
police will no longer try to stop migrants and refugees from
transiting through the country to get to Sweden and other Nordic
countries.
(AP, 9/10/15)

2015 Sep 11, Denmark said it
will not take part in a scheme to share out 160,000 refugees
proposed by European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker.
(Reuters, 9/11/15)

2015 Nov 11, Danish brewer
Carlsberg says it will slash 2,000 jobs, or about 15 percent of
its white-collar work force, after posting a 4.5 billion kronor
($650 million) loss in the third quarter.
(AP, 11/11/15)

2015 Dec 3, EU member Denmark
voted in a referendum on adopting the union's justice rules, with
the Paris terror attacks and immigration both major issues in the
campaign. 53 percent of Danish voters decided to continue a
decades-old opt-out from justice affairs in the European Union.
(AFP, 12/3/15)(AP, 12/4/15)

2016 Jan 12, The
Denmark-based Lego Group announced that it would no longer ask
what the "thematic purpose" of a project is. Instead, customers
who intend to display their creations in public will be asked to
make clear that Lego does not support or endorse them.
(AP, 1/13/16)

2016 Jan 26, The Danish
parliament passed a package of measures to deter refugees from
seeking asylum, including confiscating valuables to pay for their
stay, despite protests from international human rights
organizations.
(Reuters, 1/26/16)

2016 Jan 27, Denmark and
Switzerland joined a growing number of European countries to
report Zika infections among travelers returning from Latin
America, where the mosquito-borne virus has been blamed for a
surge in birth defects.
(AFP, 1/27/16)
2016 Jan 27, Chinese
dissident artist Ai Weiwei closed down his exhibition in the
Danish capital after lawmakers passed a controversial bill
allowing authorities to seize valuables from asylum seekers.
(AFP, 1/27/16)

2016 Jan, A Danish girl (15),
suspected of planning bomb attacks against two schools, was
arrested. Her trial began on April 19, 2017, in the Holbaek
District Court.
(AP, 4/19/17)

2016 Feb 5, A controversial
Danish law allowing police to seize valuables from refugees came
into force.
(AFP, 2/5/16)

2016 Mar 16, Denmark's
military intelligence agency (DDIS) said it's creating "a hacker
academy" where to train IT specialists who, if they graduate, will
be offered employment.
(AP, 3/16/16)
2016 Mar 16, Denmark's TV2
broadcaster opened an office in the Syrian capital, Damascus,
claiming to be the only western media to do so.
(AP, 3/16/16)

2016 May 13, President Barack
Obama welcomed a group of Nordic leaders to the White House and
celebrated the five Nordic nations (Denmark, Finland, Iceland,
Norway and Sweden) as models of reliability, equality, generosity,
responsibility, even personal happiness. Obama said that he and
the five Nordic nations agreed on the need to maintain sanctions
against Russia.
(AP, 5/13/16)(Reuters, 5/13/16)

2016 May 31, The government
of Denmark said it will punish preachers who encourage criminal
acts and blacklist "hate preachers," after a documentary about
imams advocating illegal acts sparked nationwide controversy in
February. The documentary showed hidden camera footage of imams in
Danish mosques advocating the corporal punishment of children,
stoning and whipping unfaithful spouses and requiring women to
have sex with violent spouses.
(Reuters, 5/31/16)

2016 Jun 22, A Danish court
convicted Hamza Cakan (24) a pizzeria owner, of joining
Islamic State militants in Syria, dismissing his claims that he
had gone there to work as a cook. He faced a maximum seven years
in prison.
(AP, 6/22/16)

2016 Jun 28, Denmark police
arrested two men and three women at Copenhagen's airport for using
forged passports. They carried dollars and euros worth a total of
about 129,600 kroner ($19,300). Under new legislation police
seized 79,600 kroner ($11,860). Each person was allowed to keep
10,000 kroner ($1,490).
(AP, 6/30/16)

2016 Jun, In western Denmark
seven Viking-era (800-1050) bracelets, weighing a total of almost
one kg (2.2 pounds), were discovered near Vejen by people using
metal detectors. A gold chain was found in the same field in 1911.
(AP, 6/16/16)

2016 Aug 5, Denmark's armed
forces said Danish F-16 aircraft have for the first time dropped
bombs in Syria's Raqqa province. Defense Command Denmark said the
raid was conducted in the past week.
(AP, 8/5/16)

2016 Aug 19, Danish lawmakers
decided to send a container vessel, a support ship and 200 staff
members to an international operation to rid lawless Libya of its
chemical weapons arsenal and ship them out of the country.
(AP, 8/19/16)

2016 Sep 2, In Denmark
residents of Copenhagen's semi-autonomous Christiania neighborhood
tore down the area's hashish market after an alleged drug dealer
shot two police officers and a bystander. The 25-year-old gunman
escaped after the attack but was arrested after a shoot-out with
police.
(AP, 9/2/16)

2016 Nov 27, Denmark's PM
Lars Lokke Rasmussen said he had agreed to form a new government
with the Liberal Alliance and the Conservative Party, reducing the
risk of snap elections.
(Reuters, 11/27/16)

2016 Dec 6, Danish police
arrested a man (26) suspected of seriously wounding one of its
officers by shooting him in the head outside a police station in a
Copenhagen suburb earlier in the day. The dog squad officer (43)
died the next day.
(Reuters, 12/6/16)(AP, 12/7/16)
2016 Dec 6, Danish toymaker
Lego said it is appointing its first foreign CEO and will give its
family owners a bigger role in developing the Lego brand under an
organizational shake-up that will see incumbent Jorgen Vig
Knudstorp step down by the end of the year. Briton Bali Padda,
currently chief operations officer, will replace Knudstorp.
(Reuters, 12/6/16)

2017 Jan 1, Denmark police
arrested Chung Yoo-ra (20), an equestrian competitor and the
daughter of Choi Soon-sil, a central figure in a South Korean
influence-peddling scandal that led to President Park Geun-hye's
impeachment. She will face extradition proceedings following her
arrest on an Interpol request from Seoul.
(Reuters, 1/2/17)

2017 Mar 28, The Danish
branch of the ride-sharing service Uber said it is shutting down
its services in Denmark due to a proposed law that toughens
standards for cabs.
(AP, 3/28/17)

2017 Apr 19, A Danish court
upheld a decision by the public prosecutor in Copenhagen to allow
the extradition of Chung Yoo-ra (20), the daughter of Choi
Soon-sil, the former confidante of South Korea's ousted president,
to face prosecution in her home country.
(AP, 4/19/17)

2017 May 2, Denmark banned
five Islamic clerics and an American evangelical Christian pastor
from entering the country, calling them "hate preachers" who posed
threats to public order.
(Reuters, 5/2/17)

2017 May 6, In Denmark
suspected reckless driving by jet skiers in a Copenhagen harbor
caused them to crash into a small boat, killing two people.
(AP, 5/7/17)

2017 May 13, Denmark's
government said it will ban cash in the country's largest prisons
and require inmates to pay electronically, to make it "easier to
follow the money flow in and out."
(AP, 5/13/17)

2017 Jun 15, Japan's future
king, Crown Prince Naruhito, started a five-day visit to Denmark
after the Japanese parliament last week passed a law allowing his
father, Emperor Akihito, to become the first monarch to abdicate
in 200 years.
(AP, 6/15/17)

2017 Jun 27, A major
ransomware attack hit computers at Russia's biggest oil company,
the country's banks, Ukraine's international airport as well as
Danish global shipping firm A.P. Moller-Maersk. Germany's Metro
said its wholesale stores in the Ukraine have been hit by a
cyber-attack and the retailer was assessing the impact.
(Reuters, 6/27/17)

2017 Jul 10, Denmark said
that Apple has decided to build a data center in the southwestern
town Aabenraa, near Viborg, where it has another one already under
construction.
(AP, 7/10/17)

2017 Jul 17, Denmark’s
Defense Minister Claus Hjort Frederiksen said Danish troops will
get training in how to deal with Russian misinformation before
being sent to join a NATO military build-up in Estonia in January.
(Reuters, 7/17/17)

2017 Aug 10, The Danish
environmental protection agency (DEPA) said it had reported Maersk
Oil, the oil unit of A.P. Moller-Maersk, to the police for
discharging chemicals into the North Sea in connection with oil
production.
(Reuters, 8/10/17)

2017 Aug 11, Denmark arrested
Peter Madsen on preliminary manslaughter charges after his 40-ton,
nearly 18-meter-long (60-foot-long) submarine sank off the
country’s eastern coast. He has denied responsibility for the fate
of Kim Wall (30), saying she had disembarked before his vessel
went down. Madsen later said Wall died in an accident on board the
vessel, and that he dumped her body in the sea on August 10. On
August 21 a headless torso of a woman was found on the south coast
of the isle of Amager, near Copenhagen. On Aug 23 police confirmed
that DNA tests of the torso matched Wall. Madsen later told a
pre-trial custody hearing that she died after she was accidentally
hit by a heavy hatch in the submarine's tower.
(AP, 8/12/17)(AFP, 8/21/17)(AP, 8/22/17)(AP,
8/23/17)(AP, 9/5/17)

2017 Aug 21, French oil
company Total agreed to buy Danish conglomerate AP Moller-Maersk's
oil business for $7.45 billion, in a deal that will strengthen its
position in the North Sea.
(AP, 8/21/17)

2017 Sep 4, Denmark's energy
minister said China will tap Denmark, home to some of the world's
largest offshore energy companies, to help it build a wind farm.
(Reuters, 9/4/17)

2017 Sep 7, In southwestern
Denmark some 200,000 liters (52,00 gallons) of diesel fuel spilled
into a harbor. The oil spill reportedly came from a tank at the
harbor belonging to hydrocarbon storage and shipping company
Dan-Balt.
(AP, 9/8/17)